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kellytoronto

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At my cottage, I have a wimax internet connection which currently feeds internet into the whole house (both wired and wireless) via a D-Link DIR-601.

My problem is this: the wimax connection isn't super fast and is limited to 20GB per month, which the kids can chew through quickly with some Netflix shows through our WD TV Live box. On the other hand, I have an iPhone 5 with unlimited (and fast) data. I'm looking for thoughts on a solution that would:

  1. Use the iPhone 5 (preferably via USB) whenever it is available
  2. Automatically fall back to the Wimax ethernet connection at other times
  3. Support all the usual LAN functions internal to the house: NAS etc

Right now, I can manually switch them over, but often times I forget to switch back to the iphone which leads to data usage challenges.
 
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